Opinion Columns
Back before the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year, I happened to see a notice from the Iowa State Daily newspaper on Facebook. It noted that they were looking for opinion writers as the new school year began. At the time I considered myself "opinionated", but not too outspoken about them. Still, I figured "what the heck" and got in touch with the current opinion staff and started writing. I graduated in 2011 and closed my relationship with the Daily after making many friends, perhaps playing some role in the various ACP awards they won, and writing 46 different opinion columns with the paper. If you are looking at this page, I hope you can enjoy a few of these columns below and perhaps may enjoy any columns I write in the future.
Today many ISU students will be down at the Capitol talking to Iowa legislators about the proposed cuts to the Regent Universities' budgets. Some will be fighting the proposed appropriations cuts with the ISU Ambassadors organization, and others will be supporting the cuts.
So for those of you that watched IBM's Watson 3000 processor supercomputer take on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter a couple weeks ago, were you rooting for the humans or the computer? I for one, was rooting for the humans, maybe because I couldn't connect to the computer on an emotional level or possibly because I have a tendency to root for underdogs.
While some of my good friends chuckle about my overwhelming interest in spaceflight activities, I haven't shared a huge amount of that passion with readers of the Iowa State Daily.
Well, I think now is the time to start.
For those of you not very attuned to human spaceflight news, you should be aware the venerable space shuttles the United States has been flying for 30 years will likely finish their final flights this year; the first of which is Thursday.
There has been a variety of news in technology circles in recent weeks about the case Sony is making against a hacker (or if that has a bad connotation for you, tinkerer) who figured out how to "jailbreak" the Play Station 3.
During the recent unrest in Egypt, even the uninitiated observer could see drastic differences between Al-Jazeera English's reporting in Egypt and the reports from world news leader CNN as well as the MSNBC and Fox News networks.
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